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access to the parlour, where it had coiled itself up under 

 the table. 



To Mr. Jesse, who authenticates the preceding story, 

 we are also indebted for the one which follows. W. Y. 

 Ottley, Esq., when a boy, passed a very pleasant day at 

 the house of a man of taste and fortune in Yorkshire. 

 As the party was seated in the arbour after dinner, he 

 observed that a little cur dog was much caressed by the 

 lady of the house, and remarked that it was no beauty, 

 when he heard that it had other and better claims to 

 regard. It had belonged to a poor cottager just by, 

 who, during the preceding winter, was returning from 

 the market-town some distance off, and perished in a 

 snow-storm by which she was overtaken. So deep 

 was the snow-drift, that her body was not discovered 

 till three days afterwards, when the dog was found lying 

 close to his mistress with her basket of eatables un- 

 touched. It was then remembered unhappily too late 

 that the faithful animal had been in the village on 

 the evening of the snow-storm, and, by whinings and 

 pullings at their clothes, had in vain endeavoured to 

 induce some of the poor woman's neighbours to afford 

 her relief. 



